Red Sparowes - New EP Soon, Tour

Cinematic instrumental post-rockers Red Sparowes are back with a new EP, Aphorisms, due out via Neurot digitally on August 1st and physically (CD, vinyl) later this fall. The EP was engineered by Toshi Kasai, who recently turned Big Business from a duo into a trio.

Aphorisms will include only three tracks, but for Red Sparowes that's likely to top 30 minutes. The first of the three cuts, "We left the apes to rot, but find the fang still grows within" (actually one of the band's shorter song titles), is streaming at Red Sparowes' MySpace page.

We listened, and the song is good, but to be honest we prefer old Red Sparowes-- 2005's At the Soundless Dawn is such a fantastic record, and 2006's Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun has its moments as well, particularly its lead 'single' "Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe"-- what an incredible composition that song is...

Red Sparowes are certainly still one of the best bands doing the cinematic post-rock thing, even sans Josh Graham (Neurosis [visuals], Battle of Mice, A Storm of Light), and Aphorisms will surely be worth checking out.

Tour dates after the jump.

Red Sparowes - 2008 Dates:

July 05 08 Eurockeennes Festival - Belfort, FR
July 07 08 The Engine Room - Brighton, UK
July 08 08 ULU - London, UK
July 09 08 Barfly - Liverpool, UK
July 10 08 Stereo - Glasgow, Scotland UK
July 11 08 Fibbers/Barfly - York, UK
July 12 08 The Corporation - Sheffield, UK
July 13 08 SuperSonic Festival - Custard Factory - Birmingham, UK
July 14 08 The Croft - Bristol, UK
July 16 08 La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR w/ Oxbow & Harvey Milk
July 17 08 Shocken - Stuttgart, DE
July 18 08 Garage Kleiner Club - Saarbrucken, DE
July 19 08 Rock Herk - Herk de Stad, BE w/ Battles
July 27 08 WICKERPARK FEST - Chicago, IL w/ ISIS, Maps & Atlases and more